Tell me about your Greyhound bus experience

[JudynTX]

We're going to Dallas next month and decided to take Greyhound. First time ever traveling by bus. :lol

Please list your bad and good experiences. Thanks. :tu

[Agloco]

:lol

Prepare to meet some interesting personalities.......its a different clientele than those who fly (at least it used to be).

The only bus trip I took was when I was in my early 20s. I decided to take a bus from Phoenix to Miami for a cruise. Sounds strange, but I was game for a different type of experience back then.

And I definitely got that. I met a 25 year old woman traveling to Alabama with her 4 year old daughter. She was the cutest little girl. I remember playing dolls with her and counting cars to keep her occupied. I also met a wrestler (forgot his name), another girl who was going from San Diego to Orlando to visit her mother, and 2 drunks (who sang gospel all the way through Missisippi........creepy). Another person kept trying to sell us stuff from South America. I think he was Peruvian.

A lot of stories got exchanged over that 30 hour ride. If you're with someone, it's not as bad. Alone, it can be pretty frightening. We stopped in some places in Louisiana and Mississippi that were straight out of "Deliverance"..... I wasn't about to step foot off of that bus, no matter how thirsty I was. Getting rest was next to impossible.....I was sitting next to the biggest dude I've ever seen, and I'm not exactly puny myself. I wasn't about to rest my head on his shoulder.

I can tell you that the trip made reaching the destination (Port of Miami) that much sweeter.

Fortunately I won enough money by gambling in the ships casino so I bought a flight back to Phoenix. I've filed the experience under: Glad I did it, would never do again.

Hope that helps. =)

[JudynTX]

:lol I'll be with my husband so we'll be ok there. The things I worry about are the restroom. :wow I'm gonna try not to drink anything the whole trip. :lol

I like people watching, so it should be entertaining.

[Agloco]

:lol I'll be with my husband so we'll be ok there. The things I worry about are the restroom. :wow I'm gonna try not to drink anything the whole trip. :lol

I like people watching, so it should be entertaining.

Well, if you're heading up I35 there aren't too many bad places I suppose. Certainly not like I saw.....

The restroom? Yeah, empty out before you go......

[JudynTX]

Well, if you're heading up I35 there aren't too many bad places I suppose. Certainly not like I saw.....

The restroom? Yeah, empty out before you go.....

Sure enough. :lol

Did you take a flask?

[SA DAVE]

I used to work for the Texas Dept of Criminal Justice, and part of my job was to escort prisoners off of the greyhound bus into a car and then deliver them to Bexar County Jail. If you see someone wearing all white, he's most likely a prisoner in transport or a painter. Hope that helps :toast

[lebomb]

Axe murderers prefer the bus as their form of transportation. :toast

[PakiDan]

You don't have a car?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

San Antonio to Houston wasn't too eventful, though someone must have took a bigger than usual dump. The warning I got from a friend who use Greyhound a few times a year to visit family around Texas was to sit as far away from the bathroom as possible, but really if anyone uses the thing the whole bus is going to smell it for 30 minutes. This one lingered for at least an hour and who knows how much longer after we got off the bus.

The return trip was a less smelly, but more memorable. I ended up sitting next to this huge Mexican dude (at least I assumed as much from the huge Mexican flag on his shirt) whose arms were covered in tats and was wearing a surgical mask. Guy sat down next to me, didn't say a word or make eye contact with anyone for the entire trip. Just sat there like a fucking statue. Then there were four or five nuns that were the chattiest group of people you ever saw. There were two that were sitting together who spent the entire time talking very loudly to each other. The others ended up talking the ears off of the people that who say next to them, probably thinking that sitting next to a nun was safer than ending up next to a massive serial killer looking guy and then ended up trapped because there's no way to tell a nun to shut the fuck up without feeling bad about yourself.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Oops, double post.

[mrsmaalox]

Hmm I wonder what nuns chat about? Had no clue they could talk someone's ear off :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Echo

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Well, be prepared for some interesting smells. I travelled back and forth on them when I started college. I don't know if I'd do it these days though. Good luck.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Oh and rule number one is you never shit on a bus. I don't care if there's a toilet. Its for urine and puke.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Hmm I wonder what nuns chat about? Had no clue they could talk someone's ear off :lol

Well the two that were talking to each other were the only ones I could actually hear clearly enough to understand. The only thing I remember well is that they were coming back from New Orleans and had a lot of "these kids these days" sort of things to say. This trip was in mid March so I'm sure they had a saw more than a few Spring Breakers.

[JudynTX]

I used to work for the Texas Dept of Criminal Justice, and part of my job was to escort prisoners off of the greyhound bus into a car and then deliver them to Bexar County Jail. If you see someone wearing all white, he's most likely a prisoner in transport or a painter. Hope that helps :toast

Watch for those wearing all white - check.


Axe murderers prefer the bus as their form of transportation. :toast

Watch for axe murderers - check.


You don't have a car?

We do, but this is on our bucket list. :lol And we're only going to Dallas, how bad could it be?


San Antonio to Houston wasn't too eventful, though someone must have took a bigger than usual dump. The warning I got from a friend who use Greyhound a few times a year to visit family around Texas was to sit as far away from the bathroom as possible, but really if anyone uses the thing the whole bus is going to smell it for 30 minutes. This one lingered for at least an hour and who knows how much longer after we got off the bus.

The return trip was a less smelly, but more memorable. I ended up sitting next to this huge Mexican dude (at least I assumed as much from the huge Mexican flag on his shirt) whose arms were covered in tats and was wearing a surgical mask. Guy sat down next to me, didn't say a word or make eye contact with anyone for the entire trip. Just sat there like a fucking statue. Then there were four or five nuns that were the chattiest group of people you ever saw. There were two that were sitting together who spent the entire time talking very loudly to each other. The others ended up talking the ears off of the people that who say next to them, probably thinking that sitting next to a nun was safer than ending up next to a massive serial killer looking guy and then ended up trapped because there's no way to tell a nun to shut the fuck up without feeling bad about yourself.

Please tell me they have electrical outlets for my iPod. :lol


Well, be prepared for some interesting smells. I travelled back and forth on them when I started college. I don't know if I'd do it these days though. Good luck.

I'll take some Febreeze. :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

You seriously gonna take a bus? I'd take the train. Probably cheaper but a little more travel time. Less urine, shit and armpit stench too

[mrsmaalox]

A short trip like Dallas is probably the best; I've never been on one but my uncle told me the noise on those is deafening----lots of snorers! :lol

[tlongII]

Riding the Greyhound is fine. It's waiting at the bus station that can be interesting.

[JudynTX]

You seriously gonna take a bus? I'd take the train. Probably cheaper but a little more travel time. Less urine, shit and armpit stench too

We're seriously gonna do this. Hmm, didn't think about the train.


A short trip like Dallas is probably the best; I've never been on one but my uncle told me the noise on those is deafening----lots of snorers! :lol

I'll take my ear plugs too. :lol

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Mexico bus drivers are one of the worst on the road. Those jackasses are always flying up and down 35.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Riding the Greyhound is fine. It's waiting at the bus station that can be interesting.

That's true. I was almost sad to get on the bus in San Antonio because there was a cop talking to a couple and it looked like things were starting to get heated. Wonder how that turned out. And I was definitely not sad to get on the return bus because there were plenty of shady characters at the Houston stop, but that's pretty much any block in downtown Houston.

Also reminds me of my uncle's favorite story to tell which he swears is 100% true. I don't like giving out anyone's names, but it's pretty central to this story; in this case Dwight Pearson. This would have been in the early 70s if I recall correctly. He was going to college in North Carolina, and the trip he booked took him home to New Orleans with a stop to switch buses in Atlanta. For some reason his mom wasn't sure if she'd be home that night so he had told her his trip schedule and gave her the number the Atlanta station so that she could call and let him know if he'd need to catch a cab to her house or to his buddy's where he could spend the night.

So he's waiting on the second bus when a Greyhound worker comes and taps him on the shoulder and tells him he has a phone call. It's his mom, they talk, gets his plans squared. As he's hanging up the phone it dawns on him they didn't announce his name or anything so he asks the guy at the desk, "How did you know the call was for me?"

And the guy says, "Well they said they wanted to talk to 'da white person' so I looked around and you were the only one here."

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus, rolling down Highway 41

[CosmicCowboy]

Funniest thing I ever saw involving a Greyhound bus was on Highway 21 in 1974. It was in the summertime before they air conditioned the buses. I was behind the bus which was behind a cattle truck going about 50mph...painfully slow...we followed the damn thing for miles and the bus finally pulls out to pass...the underpowered bus was going like 1 mph faster that the truck side by side when a heifer that was backed up to the outside of the trailer started to pee...and this solid stream of pee was going right in the windows of the bus and drenching everyone on the right side window by window...I could see inside as everyone started screaming and trying to rush to the other side...:lol...it was almost to the end when the bus driver finally realized what was going on and BRAKED and did the pee fire hose in reverse back to the front of the bus.

I had just finished firing up a doobie and nearly wrecked I was laughing so hard...

[Landon Donofag]

I got a handjob on the greyhound once.

good times

[Goran Dragic]

lol taking the greyhound
lol poor

[baseline bum]

It has been a long time since I took one, but I remember the shitters in the stations were every bit as bad as the ones on the bus.

[gameFACE]

Never been on a greyhound but if you haven't already bought your tickets I'd recommend the Texas Eagle, too. The seats are (were?) much bigger than on a bus. I rode it back around '89. I went to New York via Chicago. But it stopped in Dallas. You get to see countryside that you wouldn't normally see unless you love Bucee's and Stuckey's kind of places. You can get around to a few places in Dallas on the DART and even to Ft. Worth on the commuter train.

The only thing that happened on the way up to Chicago was that a guy got out his bag of weed, put some in a pipe and lit up. A guy he was talking too said "man, don't be doing that shit you'll get kicked off". Other than that it was a tame ride up. There was a hard freeze in Texas on the way back and the train was the only thing moving. Got lucky.

[manufan10]

Watch out for snakes! Oh wait, that's on planes, nevermind.

If your bus seems to never slow down under 50 mph, then you have serious problems, and there might be a bomb rigged to your bus.

[JudynTX]

It has been a long time since I took one, but I remember the shitters in the stations were every bit as bad as the ones on the bus.

:lol


Never been on a greyhound but if you haven't already bought your tickets I'd recommend the Texas Eagle, too. The seats are (were?) much bigger than on a bus. I rode it back around '89. I went to New York via Chicago. But it stopped in Dallas. You get to see countryside that you wouldn't normally see unless you love Bucee's and Stuckey's kind of places. You can get around to a few places in Dallas on the DART and even to Ft. Worth on the commuter train.

The only thing that happened on the way up to Chicago was that a guy got out his bag of weed, put some in a pipe and lit up. A guy he was talking too said "man, don't be doing that shit you'll get kicked off". Other than that it was a tame ride up. There was a hard freeze in Texas on the way back and the train was the only thing moving. Got lucky.

I checked Texas Eagle. 10 hr trip coming back. Yikes!

[Blake]

I once went up to Dallas on greyhound to bring a car back to SA.

Lady next to me gnawed on sunflower seeds, spitting the shells on the floor while hogging the arm rest the entire time. No room to stretch.

Miserable 5+ hour trip. Never again.

[mrsmaalox]

Oh yea, I just remembered.....a lady I used to work with took her kids for a weekend at Disney or something and the whole gang came home with lice; when she complained, they said "Well ma'am we try our best to clean up between runs...."

[Blake]

Oh yea, I just remembered.....a lady I used to work with took her kids for a weekend at Disney or something and the whole gang came home with lice; when she complained, they said "Well ma'am we try our best to clean up between runs...."

How does she know Mickey or Snow White didn't give them the lice.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

You seriously gonna take a bus? I'd take the train. Probably cheaper but a little more travel time. Less urine, shit and armpit stench too

Trains are not remotely cheaper.

[leemajors]

Trains are not remotely cheaper.

I hear they nickel and dime you to death on the train.

[baseline bum]

I don't remember Greyhound being all that bad though, seriously. It's not like you'd be riding a busted up LA city bus or something.

[mrsmaalox]

How does she know Mickey or Snow White didn't give them the lice.

Everybody knows that lice are species specific-----mice lice don't cross over to people or vice versa. I suppose Snow White could be carrying dwarf lice though ;)

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Trains are not remotely cheaper.

I said "probably", Fluffy. Checked it anyway. Bus was $4 cheaper, flapjack.

Remotely :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I hear they nickel and dime you to death on the train.

The airlines are not much better but a train from Dallas to Miami on the 28th is over $450 one way. SW had fares at $440 on the same day from Dallas to Ft Lauderdale.

i like the train but it is just as expensive as flying.

[ididnotnothat]

Only bus experience I have other than school is going on casino trips.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I said "probably", Fluffy. Checked it anyway. Bus was $4 cheaper, flapjack.

Remotely :lol

I don't know why I bother trying to be civil with you but i will try and raise the bar. Apparently, the line between Dallas and San Antonio is much cheaper than their interstate stuff.

I have taken the Amtrack cross country before and its not cheap.

[TDMVPDPOY]

toilets not in ur home, if ur taking a dump...better make it silent, quick and no smell

[Wild Cobra Kai]

Gross Canada Greyhound attack (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bus-passenger-beheads-fellow-traveller-during-random-attack-883266.html)

[Gutter92]

^ thats fucked up

[MannyIsGod]

Trains get way more expensive when its not a direct run. It makes no sense for you to take the Bus when its more than one of you as its likely to be more expensive than driving and its sure as hell going to take you longer and be more miserable.

Greyhound just plain sucks ass.

[mouse]

We're going to Dallas next month and decided to take Greyhound. First time ever traveling by bus. :lol

Please list your bad and good experiences. Thanks. :tu


^ why I voted #1 on my ST top 5 poster list!


The year was 1986, I took the Greyhound bus from San Antonio to Milwaukee / Chicago with two kilos of coke in a baby blue suitcase....do the math.


It was the longest ride of my life.

The whole ride I thought about my probation officers face.

[desflood]

I had to take a Greyhound out of Detroit to Northern MI. Made some small talk with the complete stranger sitting next to me for a few minutes, then he took off his jacket and put it over his head. I'm thinking he's going to take a nap, right? Instead he reaches over, grabs my hand, pulls it under the jacket and starts sucking on my fingers before I could pull away. I was only 18, so that was easily one of the weirdest things that had ever happened to me at that point in my life :wow

[JudynTX]

The stories are getting weirder and weirder. :lol

[JudynTX]

^ why I voted #1 on my ST top 5 poster list!


The year was 1986, I took the Greyhound bus from San Antonio to Milwaukee / Chicago with two kilos of coke in a baby blue suitcase....do the math.


It was the longest ride of my life.

Let me ask this....did you still have the two kilos of coke when you arrived in Chicago? Or did you share? :lol

[mouse]

I remember we only stopped 49 times before we left Texas.

[cantthinkofanything]

The year was 1986, I took the Greyhound bus from San Antonio to Milwaukee / Chicago with two kilos of coke in a baby blue suitcase....do the math.


It was the longest ride of my life.

The whole ride I thought about my probation officers face.

Reminds me of one of my bus experiences.

This was during the L.A. marijuana drought of '86. I still had a connection with this hippie chick in Santa Cruz. All my friends knew it. So I was always buying for them. Small amounts. Finally, I said, "Fuck this shit." People were calling me all the time. "Hey, when's the next time you're getting some?" "Motherfucker, I'm trying to watch Lost Boys. When I have some, I'll let you know." Long story short, I decided to help a friend out and move a pound for him. I'm at the Greyhound station with the brick in a duffel bag. I gotta take a leak so I walk into the mens' room and who's standing there? Six L.A. County Sheriffs and one German Shepherd. All of their eyes are on me. The dog starts barking. He's barking at me. Every nerve ending, all of my senses, the blood in my veins, everything was screaming, "Take off, man, just take off, get the fuck out of there." Panic hit me like a bucket of water. First there was the shock of it...BAM!...right in the face. Then I'm just standing there, drenched in panic. And all of those sheriffs are looking at me. And they know man. They can smell it. As sure as that fucking dog can, they can smell it on me. But I keep my cool, take my piss, wash my hands and get the fuck out of there.

[manufan10]

I had to take a Greyhound out of Detroit to Northern MI. Made some small talk with the complete stranger sitting next to me for a few minutes, then he took off his jacket and put it over his head. I'm thinking he's going to take a nap, right? Instead he reaches over, grabs my hand, pulls it under the jacket and starts sucking on my fingers before I could pull away. I was only 18, so that was easily one of the weirdest things that had ever happened to me at that point in my life :wow

I think we found that stranger:




I took the Greyhound bus... with two kilos of coke in a baby blue suitcase....do the math.


It was the longest ride of my life.

The whole ride I thought about my probation officers face.

:lol

[gameFACE]

I checked Texas Eagle. 10 hr trip coming back. Yikes!

Yeah, that sucks. Back then it took me two days to get to NYC but I was just out of school and didn't have a job or anything so time wasn't a factor.

[mouse]

Let me ask this....did you still have the two kilos of coke when you arrived in Chicago? Or did you share? :lol

Actually my heart rate was off the charts, no real need to get high.

When you traffic
some shit that can put you away for at least 5 - 20 years.. your already hyped like a 7th grader using free lunch for the first time.

:wakeup

[JudynTX]

Yeah, that sucks. Back then it took me two days to get to NYC but I was just out of school and didn't have a job or anything so time wasn't a factor.

Yeah, I have a job to come back to. :lol


Actually my heart rate was off the charts, no real need to get high.

When you traffic
some shit that can put you away for at least 5 - 20 years.. your already hyped like a 7th grader using free lunch for the first time.

:wakeup

Were you sweating? :lol

[Blake]

I had to take a Greyhound out of Detroit to Northern MI. Made some small talk with the complete stranger sitting next to me for a few minutes, then he took off his jacket and put it over his head. I'm thinking he's going to take a nap, right? Instead he reaches over, grabs my hand, pulls it under the jacket and starts sucking on my fingers before I could pull away. I was only 18, so that was easily one of the weirdest things that had ever happened to me at that point in my life :wow

Were you eating Cheetos

[baseline bum]

LOL at the thought of bringing kilos of coke on a Greyhound. They search your bags way more thoroughly than any airport screener; I guess because at the airport you don't need to be worried about getting shanked.

[JudynTX]

LOL at the thought of bringing kilos of coke on a Greyhound. They search your bags way more thoroughly than any airport screener; I guess because at the airport you don't need to be worried about getting shanked.

Do you get body scanner or just patted down? :lol

[mouse]

Were you sweating? :lol

Actually I was dehydrated and sever case of cottonmouth

The bus ride was only half the stress picking up the suitcase was a scene out of midnight express.


You know DEA is watching but fortunately they was looking for the big fish.
I was just a spoke in the Big wheel.

It paid 5,000 and it only took 21 days to spend when your parting in the 80s

[mouse]

LOL at the thought of bringing kilos of coke on a Greyhound. They search your bags way more thoroughly than any airport screener; I guess because at the airport you don't need to be worried about getting shanked.

This was 1986 era...dogs only found weed. And the attention was mainly on the borders of Texas not a bus to Milwaukee. You know how many people travel by bus everyday?

[Das Texan]

I would rather shoot myself in the face as opposed to riding a bus again.

[Ditty]

Only been on a greyhound once, and hope to never get on one again. Went to Houston back in 2009, for a last minute Spurs vs Rockets game, so a buddy and I decided not to drive because the weather was really crappy rainy day. The longest 3 hour trip ever, the guy drove like he never wanted to get to Houston, and the bus was leaking water in front of people in front of us, and at times would reach me. After the game we were about to go back on the bus until the bus driver that drove us there ripped the wrong ticket, so the bus driver driving back to SA wouldn't take the ticket the guy was orginally was supposed to take. I had to buy a brand new ticket, luckily the guy hauled ass back to SA in 2 hours, and the Spurs won so I didn't complain.

[mouse]

I would rather shoot myself in the face as opposed to riding a bus again.

I take it you didn't take the non stop ride? Huge mistake when I took a bus to Miami. We stopped 10 times before we even left Texas.

Then once we was in Florida it was 15 stops before Miami.

There was one stop in a town called Tallahassee the last time I saw that many black people I was in Cleveland.

I remember one small town the bus station only had vending machines I was hungry and saw a burger joint 6 blocks away. I went to order a burger and 7 minutes later I saw my bus pass in front of me I had to spend a night at the bus station till the next bus came. The town was so small the bus station closed at night so I was outside the whole time.

I wasn't sleepy at all , in fact I knew from that day on I was security guard material.

[JudynTX]

Our adventure begins tomorrow. :D Wish us luck! :lol

[JudynTX]

Thanks :)

[bus driver]

dont wear open toe shoes

[RaZon]

I used to take a Greyhound from San Diego to Visalia just about every week when in port. One of the stories...

We are about to pull out of North Hollwood when a guy and his girlfriend get on. They find a set right beside me. She was one ugly girl, he was no charmer either. I'm reading some book when, they start going at it. Almost fucking right there in the seat, at 19 I wasn't the take charge guy I would become, I kept on reading. Then here comes a wig right in my lap, yep that she was a he.

Then there was the time, I'm half asleep sitting at the depot in Bakersfield it's pouring down rain. I'm in that state of half awake/asleep. I just happened to look out the window, coming across the street (pouring down rain) here comes this guy in a wagon, he has no legs, he's pushing himself along with his arms. I just stared.

She said she was from Santa Cruz.....too long to tell....

[JudynTX]

dont wear open toe shoes

Why not? :lol

[manufan10]

Why not? :lol

lebomb might try sucking on your toes when you're not looking. :lol

[JudynTX]

lebomb might try sucking on your toes when you're not looking. :lol

:rollin:rollin

[Sense]

I've gone from Eagle Pass to San Antonio on it, and back... it was alright, I sat in the front so ehh...

I've never used it after that, I actually use Turimex because I feel more comfortable in those.

[RaZon]

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[JudynTX]

Ok, my experience is over. :lol

1) No weird people on the bus, except for a lady who brought a big bowl of green beans on the bus. It stunk up the whole bus.
2) I never used the bathroom on the bus.
3) Trip was delayed due to traffic in San Marcos & Austin.
4) Once we arrive in Dallas, there's almost a brawl amongst the cab drivers over who was going to take us to our hotel. :lmao
5) Coming back, there were no problems.

All in all, it wasn't that bad after all. :D I don't know if we'll do it again anytime soon, but it was fun.

[bus driver]

Ok, my experience is over. :lol

1) No weird people on the bus, except for a lady who brought a big bowl of green beans on the bus. It stunk up the whole bus.
2) I never used the bathroom on the bus.
3) Trip was delayed due to traffic in San Marcos & Austin.
4) Once we arrive in Dallas, there's almost a brawl amongst the cab drivers over who was going to take us to our hotel. :lmao
5) Coming back, there were no problems.

All in all, it wasn't that bad after all. :D I don't know if we'll do it again anytime soon, but it was fun.

:tu

one point, if u didnt notice any weird people then sorry to say u were the weird person. did you notice empty seats around u?

[cantthinkofanything]

Ok, my experience is over. :lol

1) No weird people on the bus, except for a lady who brought a big bowl of green beans on the bus. It stunk up the whole bus.
2) I never used the bathroom on the bus.
3) Trip was delayed due to traffic in San Marcos & Austin.
4) Once we arrive in Dallas, there's almost a brawl amongst the cab drivers over who was going to take us to our hotel. :lmao
5) Coming back, there were no problems.

All in all, it wasn't that bad after all. :D I don't know if we'll do it again anytime soon, but it was fun.

seems anticlimactic. Maybe you could make something up. Like instead of a bowl of green beans, she was carrying a bowl of mouse heads. or something like that. Maybe a box of feet?

[JudynTX]

:tu

one point, if u didnt notice any weird people then sorry to say u were the weird person. did you notice empty seats around u?

Hardly :lol

I forgot to mention the complete lack of security. No one checked our luggage or us. :lol I can only imagine the amount of drugs being transported this way.


seems anticlimactic. Maybe you could make something up. Like instead of a bowl of green beans, she was carrying a bowl of mouse heads. or something like that. Maybe a box of feet?

Ok, you're right. There was this one kid who kept playing with rubber bands.